Susanna Reid supported her former Good Morning Britain co-host Piers Morgan when he made a remark about Prince Harry.
The former senior royal is back in the UK for a trial against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) in which he and over 100 other celebrities are involved.
He has accused MGN, the publisher of The Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, and Sunday People, now owned by Reach Plc, of illegally acquiring information, such as through phone hacking.
On Tuesday, Harry became the first royal in 130 years to testify under oath in court in a lawsuit.
Piers, one of the Prince’s most vocal and long-standing detractors, departed GMB in 2021 following uproar when he stated he didn’t believe Meghan Markle‘s accusations in her Oprah interview, which included charges of racism and suicidal ideation.
As the trial began, a Sky News reporter approached Piers on the street and asked what he thought about Harry’s trial, to which he acknowledged he hadn’t yet watched it.
But he added: ‘I wish him luck with his privacy campaign. I look forward to reading it in his next book.’
Susanna, who has defended Prince Harry and understands his feelings towards the British press, said on Wednesday that she found Piers made an ‘interesting’ point.
She said on GMB that Harry ‘talks to people in a way that maybe he wants to keep things private.
‘But Piers makes an interesting point there, whether you love him or hate him, whether you agree with what Harry said in court or not.
‘The point is, that Harry and Meghan have gone public with so much of their private lives. They’ve done Netflix documentaries which had massive ratings. They did not go under the radar. Spare blurted huge amounts of personal stuff, not just about his life but about his family’s life. About William, about Camilla, about the King.
‘Does that mean that when he then goes to court and says “My privacy was intruded upon,” he doesn’t have the same sympathy as if he had just gone and led a private life?’
According to Harry’s attorneys, 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 contained illegally obtained material.
MGN said it ‘unreservedly apologises’ to the duke for one incident when a journalist unlawfully sought information about one of Harry’s nights out in 2004 at London’s Chinawhite nightclub – a known celebrity haunt which has since closed – and that he was entitled to ‘appropriate compensation’.
It has already confessed that its titles were involved in improper information collecting and has resolved over 600 lawsuits for over £100 million in damages and expenses. However, its attorneys stated that there was no evidence of any further illegal behaviour by the monarch.
On Tuesday, in a written statement Harry referenced Piers directly, writing: ‘[T]he thought of Piers Morgan and his band of journalists earwigging into my mother’s private and sensitive messages […] makes me feel physically sick and even more determined to hold those responsible, including Mr Morgan, accountable for their vile and entirely unjustified behaviour.’
Later, he writes: ‘Unfortunately, as a consequence of me bringing my Mirror Group claim, both myself and my wife have been subjected to a barrage of horrific personal attacks and intimidation from Piers Morgan.’
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV
Source My Celebrity Life.
